FORCE Cancer Charity celebrated the end of its 30th anniversary year with a Back to the 80s Christmas party that attracted businesses, organisations and groups of friends from across the South West.
Nearly 500 partygoers in fancy dress packed the University of Exeter Great Hall to have a good time and raise around £3,000 for FORCE, which has been supporting local people with cancer since 1987.
Ra-ra skirts, shell suits, crimped hair and costumes inspired by film, TV and gaming characters were the order of the night from Super Mario to Top Gun right through to E.T. and Dirty...
The University of Exeter has appointed Craig Nowell as Director of Campus Infrastructure and Operational Support Services. He will join the University in March 2018.
This is a new role for the University and comprises overall responsibility for Campus Services which includes the University’s Sport, Residential Services, Retail and Catering, Facilities Management and Event Exeter teams.
Estate Services, which includes those developing the University’s Estate and the award winning Grounds team, along with Exeter IT who support the University’s IT infrastructure and investment...
A Diabetes expert is recruiting hundreds of people with a recent diagnosis of the disease to an ongoing clinical trial.
This World Diabetes Day, Dr Angus Jones is looking for people who were diagnosed with diabetes in the last year to participate in a clinical trial, with the long-term aim of improving diagnostic accuracy.
World Diabetes Day is organised by the International Diabetes Federation, and aims to bring attention to important issues in the Diabetes community. An estimated 4.5 million people are living with Diabetes in the UK alone.
Entrepreneurs can pitch ideas about a new concept or product and begin creating their own business at an event, later this month in Exeter.
Startup Weekend, a 54-hour event, will help people develop solutions and ideas that have the potential to make a positive difference to society.
The weekend takes place from 17 to 19 November 2017 at University of Exeter’s Business School and is open to anyone with a novel product, idea or code - with the drive to turn their ideas into a startup business.
Teams will be supported to build a product or service and then present...
People whose lives have been affected by dementia have worked with well-known professional artists to create insightful images and poems that capture some of their experiences, to form a new book.
The project involved people with dementia and their partners who are part of Age UK Exeter’s Budding Friends project and who spend time together on the charity’s allotment or at a local art studio. The members of Budding Friends were involved in creative workshops with photographer Ian Beesley, cartoonist Tony Husband and poet Ian McMillan. Together, they created “The Allotment of Time”,...
Taking a low-dose aspirin before bed can reduce the risk of pre-eclampsia, which can cause premature birth and, in extreme cases, maternal and foetal death.
A trial, led by Professor Kypros Nicolaides, Professor of Foetal Medicine at King’s College London, Dr Liona Poon of King’s College, London with Professor David Wright of the University of Exeter, found that administering low-dose aspirin (150 mg) led to a 62% reduction in the rate of pre-term preeclampsia, resulting in delivery before 37 weeks.
The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found an 82%...
The University of Exeter’s commitment to providing world-class teaching has been recognised with the award of a “Gold” rating in the first national Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) assessment.
The University is one of 43 Higher Education Institutions to be recognised as offering gold standard teaching, learning and student and student outcomes in the TEF assessment, published today (June 22 2017).
The prestigious gold rating has been given in recognition of Exeter’s strong commitment to delivering outstanding teaching quality, a top class learning environment and...
Alzheimer’s Society has announced (Tuesday 20 June) that it has committed almost £2million to the University of Exeter, as part of its biggest-ever single investment in dementia care research.
The research grant will be invested over five years and will enable expert researchers at the University of Exeter to create a ‘Centre of Excellence’. The Centre will focus on improving quality of life for people with dementia and boost the number of researchers working in the dementia care field.
Alzheimer’s Society Head of Research Development, Colin Capper, said: “Dementia is set...
A pioneering new technique that encourages the wonder material graphene to “talk” could revolutionise the global audio and telecommunications industries.
Researchers from the University of Exeter have devised a ground-breaking method to use graphene to generate complex and controllable sound signals. In essence, it combines speaker, amplifier and graphic equaliser into a chip the size of a thumbnail.
Traditional speakers mechanically vibrate to produce sound, with a moving coil or membrane pushing the air around it back and forth. It is a bulky technology that has hardly...
Rainbow flags are flying at the University of Exeter’s campuses this week as staff and students mark Exeter Pride.
The University is a key sponsor of the event, which celebrates lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) communities and is honouring the occasion through proudly flying the emblem and hosting a Pride on Campus event to raise awareness of the staff and student LGBTQ+ networks.
A giant rainbow flag has been wrapped around the inside of the University’s Forum building, and they are also flying outside the Washington Singer building on the Streatham campus...
